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The most important question in today's world of climate chaos, AI psychosis, and crumbling democracy is: what can I do? Your host, Quinn Emmett is completely unqualified to answer it, so he's calling the people that already are. If you've got the news, the analysis, the outrage, but still no plan — join us as we figure it out together with long-form conversations with amazing people working on the frontlines, and quick updates responding to today's most important headlines, and what you can do about it, tonight. 220+ episodes. 110+ countries. A bunch of Webby and Signal Award nominations. Zero hot takes.

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Saturday · 4 min
TMIQ Today: Open A Window
Today: Move beyond being "right" and focus on taking effective, measurable action, because as Florence Nightingale taught us, caring is shown by doing the basics that work. ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at themostimportantquestion.show Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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Friday · 2 min
TMIQ Today: Peanuts
Today: A US-made peanut paste can bring starving children back from the edge of death, and we passed a Farm Bill provision that requires at least $200 million annually for this peanut paste, but only if two specific conditions are met. What Can You Do: Donate to UNICEF https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/unicef/ Call your Senators to urge them to pass the Farm Bill and fund Food for Peace above $1.2 billion before Congress adjourns in January. ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at themostimportantquestion.show Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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October 29 · 1 min
TMIQ Today: A Win For The Amazon
Today: President Lulu won in Brazil, which is a win for the Amazon. Celebrate the good news wherever you find it! ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at themostimportantquestion.show Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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October 28 · 2 min
TMIQ Today: Diapers
Today: A one-year-old boy was killed after a police officer fired three shots into a car pulling away in a Walmart parking lot in Mississippi, following a call that two women were suspected of stealing diapers. No one should have to steal diapers or be killed for trying to provide for their children. ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at themostimportantquestion.show Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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October 26 · 14 min
*Actually* Pro Life: Our Positions
For two years something has been missing from *Actually* Pro-Life. Obviously, you guys didn't even know about it until recently, but the point is, we had these 1,400+ actions we'd been recommending, reviewing, and refreshing for years. And on the other hand, we had these eight Principles we really talked about, and we polled people about, all very old to humanity, but we were trying to newly define them for ourselves and to arrange this whole thing. But even after we decided on what those were gonna be, between the two groups, the Principles and all these Actions, there was this gap. Cause it's one thing to walk around never questioning that, yes, obviously, I am a human, not a fucking monster, who holds the principle every person should have a home, right? It's another to take the leap and to fight for it, to donate to Habitat for Humanity, or even to step up in real life with a hammer. Unless, of course, you're one of the many millions of people who never got to choose, get to choose, who've had to fight for one or all these principles from day one, right? Either way, between the belief and the hammer, there are questions that need answers, such as: Why the hell doesn't everyone have a home, much less a guarantee of one? Exactly how many people don't have a home, and how has that changed over time? Who the hell decided they shouldn't be able to have one? How much can we reduce that number, and are there proven ways to get there at any level, local, state, country, whatever? Positions are how we answer them. -------------------------- Get more: Explore all of our APL Positions at https://www.whatcanido.earth/actually-pro-life/ Take action at www.whatcanido.earth Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch (including APL shirts!) https://shop.importantnotimportant.com/ Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Take a nap you deserve it Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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October 20 · 2 min
TMIQ Today: Oregon
Today: Three children and a 25-year-old teacher in Bend, Oregon are dead in yet another school shooting. Police arrived in three minutes, the school had locks, cameras, and drills and it still wasn't enough. What Can You Do: Donate to end gun violence https://www.whatcanido.earth/results/?verbs=donate&nouns=gun-control ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at themostimportantquestion.show Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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#223
October 19 · 1 hr 43 min
Facts Are Non-Negotiable, Framing Is A Choice
What is the price of exclusion? Well, if your family paid the price, if your people were ever left out of a textbook you don't need this new book to tell you. But the title is just the verdict. The book is the evidence. It is the names, the dates, the receipts, and in this case, one family story that somebody dug up before it disappeared. My guest has a name for that work. It is ancestral intelligence. Her book belongs alongside The Warmth of Other Suns and How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith, who has also been on this show. So here's the question: What can I do about a history I think I already know? My guest today is Nicole Carr. Nicole is an Emmy-winning investigative journalist and a journalism professor at Morehouse College. Her book The Price of Exclusion, follows her great-grandfather, Dr. Lawrence Sinclair Ferguson, a Jamaican World War I veteran and Howard-trained physician her family barely spoke of. Nicole and I went a lot of places in this conversation. Her great-grandfather, ancestral intelligence, and why books like these have to be read and have to be handed on, whether you lived the story or your family lived the story or not. Your first job is simple, which is to read it, and then it is to pass it on. It is to continue to do the work, to do your part to answer the question: What can I do? ----------- Have feedback or questions? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at themostimportantquestion.show Take Action at www.whatcanido.earth ----------- INI Book Club: Read The Price of Exclusion by Nicole Carr https://bookshop.org/a/8952/9780063288126 Find all of our guest recommendations at the INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-club Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletter at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ImportantNotImp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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October 16 · 3 min
TMIQ Today: The Talk
Today: We've gotta aim higher than simply meeting a "do not rape" threshold. We've gotta actively work to prevent harm through conversations about consent and concrete actions. What Can You Do: Virginians! Vote for Amendment 1 Call your reps to make sure 18 is set as the minimum as for marriage Check your state's sex ed standards for consent and pressure legislators if it's missing If your state still taxes menstrual products, use Alliance For Period Supplies resources to change that https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/alliance-for-period-supplies ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at themostimportantquestion.show Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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October 15 · 2 min
TMIQ Today: Trump Accounts
Today: Key word in the Trump Accounts promise: eligibility. As in, only children born after Dec 31, 2024 and before Jan 1, 2029. So, children born before 2024 or earlier get zero dollars, even though we already know what reduced child poverty, like the expanded Child Tax Credit. What Can You Do: Donate to the National Diaper Bank https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/national-diaper-bank-network/ Call your reps to get them to support the American Family Act https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/american-family-act Vote in the midterms! ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at themostimportantquestion.show Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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October 12 · 1 hr 7 min
Murder Mysteries, But For Trees
In 1904, somebody noticed a sick tree at the Bronx Zoo. Within 50 years, the fungus killing it had wiped out about four billion American Chestnut trees from Maine all the way down to Georgia. In 2018, Richard Powers wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory, which I loved. He set it in the early 20th century and made the American Chestnut tree the main character. This fabled tree, which most of us had probably never even heard of at that point, was a tree that fed families and wildlife for generations, and yet most of us had never seen one fully grown, and we still might not, unless a small team in Syracuse pulls off a caper. But last month, for the first time, the USDA cleared a forestry engineered to bring a wild species back, an American Chestnut carrying one gene from wheat. Over the last 37 years of work, there has been progress made and mistakes made, new generations of researchers and partnerships that have ended. That's just called science. But we, and I use that term loosely, may be on the cusp of a breakthrough, and not just for the chestnut tree. So what can I do about bringing back the trees we've lost? My guests today are Dr. Andy Newhouse and Sophia Soriano. Andy directs the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Sophia is a PhD student on his team, digging literally into the soil under these trees, inside and outside, and into the disease now spreading through our beech trees. We talk about what we've lost, how one gene can help a chestnut survive, the mix-up that nearly sank the whole thing, and why anyone would give their life to a specific tree that they may never see full-grown. You will leave this conversation knowing exactly how to help, from a walk in the woods to the next public comment period. ----------- Have feedback or questions? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at themostimportantquestion.show Take Action at www.whatcanido.earth ----------- INI Book Club: Read The Overstory by Richard Powers https://bookshop.org/a/8952/9780393356687 Find all of our guest recommendations at the INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-club Links: Donate to the American Chestnut Research & Restoration Project https://www.esf.edu/chestnut/donate.php Join the ACR for nuts and updates https://www.americanchestnut.org/ Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletter at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ImportantNotImp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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October 8 · 2 min
TMIQ Today: Plague
Today: Your algorithm may have spent the last week scaring you about the plague, but probably the wrong one. Pennsylvania has reported over one thousand measles cases, with 198 hospitalized and five dead...yet the CDC is only reporting two measles deaths in the whole country. What Can You Do: Call your reps to get them to make the CDC count measles deaths the way states do https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/make-the-cdc-count-measles-deaths/ ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at themostimportantquestion.show Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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October 5 · 8 min
New In What Can I Do: Notifcations
After launching What Can I Do to collect all of our recommended actions in one place, we received feedback from you that you still didn't feel like you were participating in collective action. So, as part of a "brain transplant" through the whole platform, we have just launched opt-in notifications to alert you to new actions on saved issues and locations, and that will show you when others take action because you did. Searching remains free, but if you want notifications, the ability to save locations, and follow other Shit Givers, upgrade to become an Important Member (with a 30-day free trial) at whatcanido.earth. ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at themostimportantquestion.show Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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September 26 · 3 min
TMIQ Today: Political Hobbyism, Part 2
Today: What does it mean to be *Actually* Pro Life? If political power comes from consistently meeting people's basic needs, and if being pro-life means, as Abdul EL-Sayed said, covering everyone's healthcare, then maybe we should go ahead and do that. What Can You Do: Call your reps about supporting the Medicare for All Act https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/medicare-for-all-act/ Support Dollar For so patients can access financial assistance https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/dollar-for/ Read Eitan Hersh's book Politics is for Power https://bookshop.org/a/8952/9781982116798 ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com. Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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September 25 · 2 min
TMIQ Today: Gun Laws
Today: Although most Americans want stricter gun laws, campaign money surges after fatal school shootings to prevent change. What Can You Do: Call your reps about the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025 https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/assault-weapons-ban/ Join Moms Demand Action https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/moms-demand-action/ Donate to Giffords https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/giffords/ ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com. Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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September 23 · 2 min
TMIQ Today: Clearing the Air in Schools
Today: In the 2024-2025 school year, nearly one in five US school districts cancelled school because of building failures. After Congress sent schools $190 billion, districts planned $9.7 billion for HVAC and spent nearly all of it, but no federal standard was created for acceptable classroom air. What Can You Do: Call your reps about the Indoor Air Quality and Healthy Schools Act https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/protect-indoor-air-quality/ Join Moms Clean Air Force https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/moms-clean-air-force/ ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com. Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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September 22 · 3 min
TMIQ Today: Political Hobbyism
Today: Many people practice "political hobbyism": obsessively following political news and offering hot takes, while doing little constructive work, because the personal stakes feel low. Let's redirect that energy towards doing the actual, proven, boring local organizing necessary to build political power. What Can You Do: Many school board races go unopposed. Make sure someone who believes in books is representing your children with Run For Something's guide to running for school board https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/run-for-school-board/ Read Eitan Hersh's book Politics is for Power https://bookshop.org/a/8952/9781982116798 ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com. Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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September 21 · 19 min
What is TMIQ Today?
You've probably noticed short episodes called TMIQ Today popping up in your feed. Today, INI Producer Willow hops on to chat with Quinn about what these episodes are, why we've added them to your feed, and what you can expect coming up! ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com. Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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September 18 · 2 min
TMIQ Today: Mitch Voted Against Paid Leave, And Yet
Today: Senator Mitch McConnell was absent from the Senate for three months after falling in June. When he returned in September to vote, his seat was intact. Which is how it should be: your job shouldn't be in jeopardy if you get sick. However...Mitch voted AGAINST you having those rights 8 times over his career. What Can You Do: Call your representatives about supporting the FAMILY Act to secure paid family and medical leave https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/family-act-house/ ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com. Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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September 17 · 2 min
TMIQ Today: Florida's Education Loophole
Today: Since 1975, federal law has required public school districts to offer students with disabilities an education. But if parents decline and choose a private school, the district's obligation ends. In Florida, a special scholarship that uses public money for private schooling effectively pays families to release the district from responsibility. What Can You Do: If you're a parent considering school choice, contact the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates https://www.copaa.org/ ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com. Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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September 10 · 2 min
TMIQ Today: Cleaner Air, Smarter Kids
Today: New York City cleaned up its air over 22 years with multiple policies, and a Columbia University study tracking 1100 children tested from toddlerhood during the same period found that as air pollution decreased, standard development and cognitive test scores increased. So why are we still funding natural gas buses? What Can You Do: Support Mom's Clean Air Force https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/moms-clean-air-force Use the WRI's free toolkit for getting cleaner buses in your district https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/transition-to-electric-school-buses/ ----------- Have feedback? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com. Find every action recommended in The Most Important Question here: www.whatcanido.earth ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletters at importantnotimportant.com Join us at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch! Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at beehiiv.com/privacy.
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